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Eliel Davis

1803 - 1849 Hymnal Number: d68 Author of "From every earthly pleasure" in Union Prayer Meeting Hymns Davis, Eliel, was born at Folkestone, June 5, 1803. In 1822 he entered a business establishment in London, and joined the Baptist church in Eagle Street. Entering the Baptist Ministry he was successively pastor at Newport, Isle of Wight; Regent Street, Lambeth, London; Eye, in Suffolk; and St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire. He died in March, 1849. His hymn "From every earthly pleasure" (Onward) was contributed to ms. monthly magazine, in 1821, edited by Dr. Belcher, author of Historical Sketches of Hymns, and through Dr. Belcher's influence was published in The New Baptist Magazine, March, 1825, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. It is found, usually abridged, in several modern collections. Another of his hymns "There is a heaven of perfect peace" (Heaven Anticipated), appeared in the Supplement to the Evangelical Magazine, 18(5, and is also in common use. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Jonathan Allen

Hymnal Number: d196 Author of "Sinner [sinners], will you [ye] scorn [slight] the message" in Union Prayer Meeting Hymns Allen, Jonathan. Concerning this hymn-writer, to whom is credited the hymn, "Sinners, will you scorn the message?" we can only say that this hymn appeared in Hymns adapted to Public Worship, collected from various Authors, Exeter, S. Woolmer, 1801, edited by Richard Pearsell Allen, Minister of Castle Street Meeting, Exeter; and that in D. Sedgwick's marked copy of John Dobell's New Selection, &c., 1806, it is attributed to Jonathan Allen. What authority Sedgwick had for this ascription we cannot determine. It is through him that it has gained currency. Allen's hymn, "Sinners, will you scorn, &c," is sometimes given with stanzas i. and ii. transposed, as "Hear the heralds of the Gospel," as in the American Baptist Praise Book, N. Y. 1871. [William T. Brooke] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Matthew Wilks

Hymnal Number: d84 Author of "Hallelujah, victory, victory" in Union Prayer Meeting Hymns

T. F. Middleton

1769 - 1822 Hymnal Number: d20 Author of "As o'er the past my memory strays" in Union Prayer Meeting Hymns Middleton, Thomas Fanshaw, D.D., son of Thomas Middleton, Rector of Redleston, in Derbyshire, was born there on Jan. 26, 1769. He was educated first by his father, then at Christ's Hospital, and finally at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge (B.A. in honours 1792). He was successively Curate of Gainsborough; Rector of Tansor, Northamptonshire, 1795; Vicar of St. Pancras, 1810; Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1812; and the first bishop of Calcutta, 1814. He died in Calcutta, July 8, 1822. Bishop Middleton's publications were mainly confined to various Sermons and Charges, and a work on the Greek Article. In 1824 his Sermons and Charges were collected and published with a short Memoir, by Dr. H. R. Bonney. At p. xciv. the only hymn ascribed to him is given with the explanation that it was composed by the Bishop "and always sung on new year's day, by his desire." It is: "As o'er the past my mem'ry strays"(New Year), in 4 st. of 4 1. It was printed in the August number of Carus Wilson's Family Visitor, 1826; again in Hall's Mitre Hymnal, 1836, and later in several collections. Original text in Book of Praise, 1862, p. 238. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)